[OT] Worst Language Ever!
Michael L Torrie
torriem at chem.byu.edu
Wed Feb 14 17:34:38 MST 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:46 -0700, Brian Hawkins wrote:
> I have to second the motion for VB. I had to do some stuff in VB 6 and
> I swear in order to program in it you had to dumb yourself down. I
> would do things that logically made sense in other languages but would
> not work in VB. It's like the language encourages bad program design
> and style.
I would love to see an example of what you are talking about. I have
never programmed in VB myself, but I have done a lot of programming in
the more modern dialects of BASIC and have never found anything such as
you describe. VB6's main weaknesses appeared to be from the fact that
it implemented a syntax for dealing with forms and stuff that appeared
to be object-oriented, but was not.
What (mis)features encouraged bad design? Was it simply the presence of
the old goto command or something more?
> Corey Edwards wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:29 -0700, Steve wrote:
> >> Specifically is there any language you have ever had to learn that you
> >> felt dumber for having learned/used it. Either because you expected
> >> it to handle something outside of it's problem domain and it didn't
> >> (or didn't handle it so well).
> > Visual Basic makes me depressed. Seriously. I don't know what it is
> > about it, but the few times I've tried to learn or use Visual Basic I
> > have felt ill. I fear what I might do if I had to use it for any length
> > of time.
> > Worst language I spent any significant amount of time with was an
> > inhouse language called JITE. I probably burned my docs on it. It was a
> > web mark-up language interpreted by Java servlets. Not sure if it was
> > started before JSP was introduced or somebody just didn't know.
> > Everything was abstracted 10 steps and nothing was straightforward. In
> > the end we rewrote every JITE app in JSP and life improved.
> > Corey
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